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Usage examples of stressed.

Assorted Alliteration Annexe, the superior sellers of stressed syllable or similar-sounding speech sequences since the sixteenth century.

In addition, the engineering side of architecture was also stressed because of the importance attached by the Japanese government to structural design for the purpose of protection against earthquakes.

Reemerged from the labor of refounding the stressed chord of the sixth lane, he arrowed west on the winds of high altitude, his intent to resume the interrupted assistance he still owed the Guardian of Mirthlvain.

The one thing her bosses stressed after teaching her be a bogus masseuse was that you get your violation of law without ever touching it.

To keep a spatial metaphor, the approximative character of which I have already stressed, I shall say that the signification of the myth is constituted by a sort of constantly moving turnstile which presents alternately the meaning of the signifier and its form, a language-object and a metalanguage, a purely signifying and a purely imagining consciousness.

The absence of Ralph Paton was commented on by the coroner, but not unduly stressed.

When stressed, Slattery gnawed at the ridge of skin bordering his fingernails.

Sparhawk rather carefully stressed his surrogacy in that particular event and made some issue of the fact that he was no longer Anakha.

Though their underwool was shed in summer, musk-oxen became stressed if the weather turned too warm.

He stressed that this step would pave the way for ending the alien rule that the Iraqis had experienced since the latter days of the Abbasid caliphate.

But in notes made in early March, at the time Silas Deane was appointed as a secret envoy, Adams had stressed that there must be no political or military connection with France, only a commercial connection.

It was constantly stressed that the best time to tackle a fire was the moment the incendiary bomb dropped, even if high-explosive bombs were also falling.

An animal that had been stressed would always produce beef that tasted less than perfect, and perfection was what Botswana wanted for its meat.

I felt that the dogs, and the men who handled them, were being put at great risk and that the Marines could use them with greater profit in other ways--ways that better stressed the duties for which they were trained.

Most of the recipes were not awful, although they stressed the kind of weakly flavored mock-ethnic dishes that American dietitians love and I despise.